Word Families

-ack: Backpack

-oat: What rhymes with boat?

-un: The Race for Fun

Short Stories with Wh Questions

The Little Fish Who Loved to Hide (rhyming)

The Race for Fun (-un, initial S)

Cheeseburger Picnic at Cherry Tree Park (initial ch)

Gaby the Gardener and the Goat with a Gift (initial g)

The Big Blue Bus (vocabulary, inferencing)

The 5 Pillars of Reading*

Phonics

Phonemic Awareness

Vocabulary

Fluency

Comprehension

Phonological Awareness*

Syllable Segmentation counts the number of syllables in a word.

Syllable Blending blends syllables into a word after they are given separately.

Rhyming identifies words that sound alike or rhyme.

Phoneme Isolation identifies whether a given sound occurs at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.

Initial Alliteration identifies the beginning sound in a word.

Final Alliteration identifies the last sound in a word.

Sound Blending blends sounds into a word after they are given separately.

Sound Deletion deletes a given sound from a word and says the new word.

Sound Substitution replaces a specified sound in a word and says the new word or syllable.

Sound-Grapheme Matching identifies grapheme(s) associated with individual sounds.

Sources:

Source: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS. (2000). Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read: Reports of the Subgroups (Reference Only) (00-4754). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Gillon, G.T. (2004). Phonological awareness: From research to practice. New York: The Guilford Press.

Goldsworthy, C.L. (2001). Sourcebook of phonological awareness activities Vol. II: Children’s core literature. San Diego, CA: Singular.

Lanza, J. R., & Flahive, L. K. (2012). Linguisystems guide to communication milestones: 2012 edition. East Moline, IL: Linguisystems, Inc.